Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once familiar landmark returned to Times Square last week, flashing the headline of the day: explosion on twa 727 over greece. After an absence of nine years, the famous "zipper," true to its nickname, again began zipping around 1 Times Square, known also as the tower where the New Year countdown begins with the dropping of a giant apple. First lighted on Nov. 6, 1928, to report Herbert Hoover's presidential election, the zipper paraded the Hindenburg explosion, the end of World War II and other newsworthy events until its operator, the New York Times,pulled the plug...
...cockpit, Peterson immediately turned his plane 20 degrees to the left and started a direct descent toward the Athens airport. He told the tower, "I have a problem with one of the windows. I think it is going to break, and I request immediate priority for landing." Then he tried to calm the passengers. "Please don't panic. Our engines are O.K. We'll be landing in about ten minutes if nothing else goes wrong...
...PEOPLE! Single Rooms, the View, the Food, the Tower, the weight room, the big screen T.V., the carpeting, the "Concreatery" (the grill), milk and cookies, weekly open houses, the Herlihys, the "Concrete Abstract," "Mathering Heights," the tutors, the staff, the uncrowded suites, even the free standing stairway in the house library. But most of all, the house spirit...
...divorced Yalie who tried the Harvard romance system agrees, saying he chose to advertise in the publication because of its ivory tower audience. "I thought the readers would be appropriate in terms of their educational level, and that was congenial...
...Harvard to take [the proposal] seriously; the University doesn't see how it will benefit in the direct sense." After observing how Harvard was embarassed last winter by its attitudes toward homeless men sleeping on the Leverett House grates, Sullivan says he is hopeful that the Ivory Tower will accept its responsibility as "a corporate citizen" and help finance the plan. "It's possible the city would be willing to chip in," Sullivan says. "I'd certainly support...